[Ads-l] Slight Antedating of "Trekker" (Star Trek Fan) in OED and Historical Dictionary of Science Fiction

[Shapiro, Fred]

So I see that I'm not the only one who confuses HDAS with HDSF !

Fred Shapiro

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Subject: Re: Slight Antedating of "Trekker" (Star Trek Fan) in OED and Historical Dictionary of Science Fiction

Thanks for this, Fred. HDAS is now updated.

On Tue, Nov 21, 2023 at 03:03:10PM +0000, Shapiro, Fred wrote:
> trekker (Star Trek fan) (OED and Historical Dictionary of Science Fiction 1967 [5 Apr.])
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> 1967 _TV Guide_ 22 Feb. A-72 (Internet Archive)  [letter to the editor] TREKKER ... _Star Trek_ at least rises above the typical "father is a slob, mother is a scatterbrain, and the children triumph" programs that fill the prime time every night.
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